With the introduction of the DC4800 PCIe Gen 4 family, SMART Modular Technologies – a global provider of memory solutions, solid-state drives, and hybrid storage systems, has announced the availability of a new class of high performance, power-efficient, data center SSDs.
The DC4800 SSDs from SMART are built with a unique hardware-accelerated SSD controller that would consume less power without sacrificing storage input/output (I/O) performance. Even when these SSDs are stressed to the very limit, zero-induced throttling would enable them to operate more effectively. According to SMART, a division of SGH (Nasdaq: SGH), this would result in a notable decrease in power consumption per server and reliable latency performance of up to 7-nines or 99.99999% of the time.
“Today’s leading-edge servers are not only expected to manage a significant mass of transactions to enable processes like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things, but they are also expected to be more power efficient,” said Andy Mills, data center architect for SMART. “Data centers are increasingly challenged by performance and energy demands as they expand to address these new workloads that process data from an ever-growing array of intelligent devices at the edge.”
OCP Standard
The DC4800 range of PCIe Gen 4 data center class drives adheres to the Open Compute Project (OCP) 1.0 NVMe storage standard and is offered in U.2 and E1.S form factors with capacities up to 7.68TB. With a number of OEMs and system builders, the initial sampling process has already begun.
SMART Modular Technologies has been assisting clients all over the world in enabling high-performance computing for more than 30 years. From conventional and legacy DRAM and Flash storage systems to the most cutting-edge technologies available today, their diverse portfolio would offer them all. SMART’s basic, ruggedized, and customized memory and storage solutions are designed to fulfill the demands of a variety of applications in fast-growing industries.
